Dysfunctional families often turn inward, hiding their pains and focusing on their problems while healthy families turn outward, opening themselves to others, sharing God’s blessings without reservation.
Author: wally metts
Wally Metts is the daysman. He is a professor of English and communication at Spring Arbor University and co-pastors Falling Waters Bible Church. The father of four adult children, he and his wife Katie raise barn cats on 20 acres in Horton, Michigan. His grandchildren call him Santa.
the blessing of work
I’ve been reading The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Bottom, and the book itself is a joy. It’s well done literary non-fiction, an exploration of work in ten fields, everything from being an accountant to the manufacturer of cookies. I can’t begin to do justice to the literary and philosophical texture of… Continue reading the blessing of work
the caustic spirit of the age
Find just about any article on politics and the vicious and vacuous comments will make you wonder about the underlying assumptions of a representative democracy.
how to be a fake Christian
Being a Christian is not about being passionate or articulate, although of course it doesn’t exclude it. And that’s my concern about a study of fake Christians that doesn’t define what a Christian is.
looking for significance in all the wrong places
Elizabeth Gilbert can “eat, pray, love” all she wants, but she shouldn’t be writing.
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